That’s right. You’ll see it on the news tomorrow. But you read it here first. Tomorrow, the Congressional Budget Office will forecast that the 2009-2010 federal budget will run at a staggering, unbelievable, mind-blowing, and scarcely comprehensible two trillion dollar… Continue Reading
Apparently, there are plans in the works to send U.S. military troops into northern Mexico to help fight the ascendant narcotics organizations there. It seems to be the case that these large criminal enterprises are, in some regions of northern… Continue Reading
Or so says President Obama. I seem to recall President Bush saying similar things about his FEMA director immediately after Katrina, his Secretary of Defense and other Iraq policy architects, and his Attorneys General. But the thing is, the shitstorm… Continue Reading
There’s a rule that jurors are only supposed to consider the evidence presented to them at a trial, and not do independent research into the subject matter of a case they are asked to decide. This rule is there for… Continue Reading
This search recently came in and I viewed it on the traffic feed: Foggia, Puglia arrived from google.it on “Not A Potted Plant: June 2007” by searching for If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would… Continue Reading
Huh. Turns out that yesterday was St. Patrick’s Day. I literally did not notice. Wasn’t an issue at all. Now, if people want to wear green and drink a lot of booze that’s cool, but the point, I thought, was… Continue Reading
…then listen to Bill O’Reilly read the sex scenes from his already-creepy book out loud. [author whimpers, shudders]
Um, someone explain to me why everyone is so outraged over bonuses being paid to AIG executives? It’s not like this was some kind of a secret that this is how they were going to be paid, and that they… Continue Reading
For about a week every year, California’s high desert blooms. This is usually about a month after the rains stop. The grass is green and growing all throughout the desert. Poppies start to emerge. The mountains have a golden-green sheen… Continue Reading
In a bid to increase revenues, the State Board of Equalization took a look at ultra-sweet “malt liquor beverages” like Mike’s Hard Lemonade, Smirnoff Ice, and any remaining bottles of the clear, oddly-sweet-yet-undelicious alcholoic soda known amongst my law school… Continue Reading